Rick Perry is ready for redemption.
The outgoing Republican Governor of Texas is poised and ready for a 2016 presidential run he hopes will not mirror his bid in 2012.
“We are a substantially different, versed candidate,” he told the Washington Post, adding that though other politicians who went through what he did during his failed 2012 presidential run might “scurry off to the quietness and the comfort of some obscure place,” he “wasn’t interested in doing that.”
Perry, 64, who said he has not yet decided whether or not to run in 2016 and will not announce the decision until next May or June, has been making hints lately that he is ready to run.
“You want the guy in the front left seat to be more than a low-time, private pilot,” Perry said. “You’d like to have the person in the front left seat of your aircraft being a rather high-time, experienced aviator.”
Perry, who has been in public office since 1985 and Texas’ governor for the past 15 years, has already been prepping his team for another presidential run — making sure he does not make the same mistakes this time around.
“If you’re looking for that steady hand that’s going to make a clean break with the administration’s policies that are in place today, I am a very clear and compelling individual to support,” he said.
He has a long way to go should he decide to run.
Perry is polling eighth among 11 potential candidates according to a RealClearPolitics average of polls, nearly eight percentage points behind leader former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.
